I won't accept any Gordie slander, my man is the GOAT
I think they actually made Arceus not just for the money and that’s why it was good
Gen 3 dev we had a more traditional sea serpent design for it that was changed (to where palette is incompatible)Here comes my unpopular take that I know I will probably get a lot of hate for.
I absolutely HATE Milotic. I find it the way it looks more disturbing than majestic due to 3 different reasons
1) I think water snakes are one of the most terrifying creatures on this planet. You are absolute helpless if you're swimming in the water and a water snake approaches you
2) It has completely pointless antennas. Why would something that lives under water have antennas like Milotic has, there is no point in them and they're just weird
3) The most weird thing about Milotic. It's long "scarf-hair" thingy is actually it's eyebrows. I do think it's very disturbing and takes everything away about being "beautiful" knowing that those things are it's eyebrows. Why is it bald but then also has 2 meter long eyebrows? It will never make sense to me and I absolutely despise it.
stupid ugly bald water eyebrow fish snake
If it makes you feel better, here's the animal it's based on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_oarfishHere comes my unpopular take that I know I will probably get a lot of hate for.
I absolutely HATE Milotic. I find it the way it looks more disturbing than majestic due to 3 different reasons
1) I think water snakes are one of the most terrifying creatures on this planet. You are absolute helpless if you're swimming in the water and a water snake approaches you
2) It has completely pointless antennas. Why would something that lives under water have antennas like Milotic has, there is no point in them and they're just weird
3) The most weird thing about Milotic. It's long "scarf-hair" thingy is actually it's eyebrows. I do think it's very disturbing and takes everything away about being "beautiful" knowing that those things are it's eyebrows. Why is it bald but then also has 2 meter long eyebrows? It will never make sense to me and I absolutely despise it.
stupid ugly bald water eyebrow fish snake
On the topic of Evasion, is it really that surprising that Pokemon has it? I know multiplayer dislike evasion strats, but it’s common tactic in RPGs to buff evasion for both the player and enemy to avoid attacks to buy time to dish out damage. Fire Emblem, Persona, and DragonQuest feature evasion buffing skills as part of the RPG and it’s essential for success to get through levels.
The game literally gives you tools to deal with them, it’s not their fault if you choose not to use them. It’s like complaining about roaming Pokemon when you won’t use Mean Look and Taunt.
With video games it’s harder to tell because it’s not just one person’s creative vision like a book, song, or even movie is seen as (yes obviously it’s more complicated don’t be pedantic), which is also going to affect how it is reviewed compared to other media, and what people write about it.
That's a pretty good way to say, "I've never played the Battle Factory", without outright saying it.
Let's ignore that Fire Emblem dodgetanks are generally kinda busted for a minute because I agree with you.
If that's the case, then maybe stat boosts should have been designed to be temporary? That's what other RPGs like the one I mentioned above do Honestly, in hindsight Its really weird that was Pokemon designed with stat boosts being permanent. Other RPGs usually have have a limit on how long stat buffs and statuses last for because they know how easy it to snowball with strong stat boosts ( AKA Baton Pass )- my guess they thought it was okay for stat boosts to be permanent since switching completely overrides it, though switching in general is an overpowered concept in general when you look at it from Single Player perspective.
I mean Temtem has permanent stat boosts (don’t change when switching) but they don’t have singles or evasion and they have reset but limited distribution thi
It could have worked and honestly been pretty cool if which of the swapped gym leaders you get is determined randomly when you started the game.* That would make it a slightly different experience on repeat playthroughs. But making them version exclusive...it doesn't really elevate the experience for an individual. You either get Melony or Gordie, and have no context for what you're missing unless you buy multiple versions. It doesn't improve the conversation around the game at all either. Just a nothing feature.
taking it one step further, I love the object mons and the ones with multiple heads. I think they are great and really don't get why so many people dislike them. I actually dislike Magnezone because it effectively goes back to 1 head.
I'm neutral on the number of heads, but I still end up ranking Magnezone's design below Magneton. I find Magnemite cute and 'Zone's units less so, so I prefer just having more Magnemites.
You’re approaching this from the premise that such strategies are unfair which justifies you not preparing to counter them which makes them unfair. Sometimes you have to sacrifice powerful move slots for this, or run stuff like taunt or accuracy increasing moves. Not doing so has an opportunity cost: you are vulnerable to evasion boosting strategies. And if you’re fine with that cost, then the strategies themselves aren’t too bad.
You state already that there is an opportunity cost to not running these moves to mitigate evasion boosting strategies, but I would say that the opportunity cost for actually running them is even bigger. Sure, you could run shock wave, but the majority of the time you would much prefer thunderbolts higher power as that comes up in a large majority of scenarios. Sure, you could run sweet scent, but that is literally just for wanting more encounters (which besides the attribute that they cause horde battles in ORAS, you never really want that attribute since you can just walk around) and stopping evasion strategies. The issue has never been that there isn't options, there has always been options, but that using these options are so constraining because you don't really want them in any other scenario. So if you do counter it, you are making yourself a lot worse against literally everything else.
In fairness, at least in terms of STAB, Shock Wave isn't competing with Thunderbolt. It's competing with whatever mix of non-STAB coverage and utility moves you're putting in the other three slots. And good non-STAB coverage is both harder to come by and less important in single player. The only time you'd run a move like Shock Wave as your only STAB of a given type is if you already have another STAB move of a different type, or if you don't have a better STAB (Dragon Dance Aerial Ace Salamence is pretty nice in the Battle Frontier).
That's a pretty terrible argument lol.
...no the argument is focused on in-game. if you follow the chain of quotes this all started with someone complaining about Juan's Kingdra.
